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[@mck1972]

You know there's a term for groups of people who conspire together to commit crimes: Organized Crime!

[@DrDeuteron]

Museums should do it like casinos: one of them sets foot in the place and they are immediately bounced.

[@ErroneousMonk1]

This is what FAFO looks like. Good job, Germany. Finally.

[@keithkhan174]

They wouldn't be able to continue if they were in jail.

[@mooserx4]

Finally

[@Johnyshmit]

Speaking of Constitution. False imprisonment and kidnapping. Every driver in those cars is a victim and has right to self defense

[@1inchPunchBowl]

Derp

[@deanirving1076]

what Im finding confusing about these groups is they achieve nothing but annoying other people, nothing they do will change a damn thing, and they are making enemies to their cause with their stupid tactics

[@bluebowser3347]

They think bad publicity is good for their cause. Everyone I've talked to said they want to see someone hurt them. These "activists" need harsher punishments because they're destroying any empathy the public has for their cause with their targeted attacks towards the general public.

[@1inchPunchBowl]

The fact you even made this comment demonstrates they are winning. Well done for playing your part.

[@fedegibsonlespaul]

If you look it up, many of these "activists organisations" are actually funded by the millionaires from the business they're supposed to be "against of". I'm beginning to suspect that the plan is: instead of having a real opposition, they fabricated these clowns so the public not only doesn't receive their message but instead started to hate them and allign with the other side. It's a great "public oppinion" marketing strategy that could be called "ridicule the message". And these underaged NPC's are great tools, these are no "real activists"...

[@oldsoundz]

@@1inchPunchBowl They've won nothing.

[@richclarke1523]

I wonder HOW these protesters get to the planned road block...imagine a van of them getting stuck in traffic, and find out it is a similar group blocking traffic... Sounds like a Monty Python skit..

[@Adriatico90]

Finally something is getting done

[@alexiscustodio192]

The gjirl cannot defferentiate democracy from anarchy...

[@ErroneousMonk1]

Hey, finally a Democracy Now video I can thumbs up. Or nah?

[@switzerlandful]

STOP BLOCKING TRAFFIC You're going to end up blocking an ambulance's or police car's route and it could end up costing lives. Think about your actions first.

[@kht_maskky]

They always leave an escape lane (so one doesn't get stuck), but it's stupid when there's already too much traffic jam and the angry people get out of their cars because they want to clear the blockage and then they can't use an escape lane anymore form . I think a cyclist bled to death in an ambulance because of something like that

[@stevenumphlett6730]

I'm curious how they get funded

[@moshunit96]

Doesn't cost much to throw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting. Seriously though there are plenty of people out there with money who wouldn't join a protest like this themselves but are happy to support it by donating.

[@1inchPunchBowl]

Donations. It was hardly a stretch to come to that conclusion.

[@avarion9538]

@@1inchPunchBowl not just donations. Some organisations that are close to german parties give them money. And this organisations get public money. Here in germany a lot of people are mad about that. They get money especially from SPD and don't have to care about lawsuits or anything else.

[@admin-ts8uv]

Nice!!!!

[@minerblue9641]

Who cares whats happening in germany.

[@lapelcelery42]

"First they came for the Canadian trucker convoy, and I did not speak out..."

[@incurableromantic4006]

"Not only did I not speak - I cackled and gloated and said they deserved it for being "fascists""

[@iceman18211]

As a Canadian, the convoy participants got off too easy.

[@lapelcelery42]

@@iceman18211 Great. Don't be surprised when a future government abuses the same power to silence you. And I presume you therefore have no problem with what the Germans are doing above.

[@iceman18211]

@@lapelcelery42 Blocking the streets to stop cars getting by is a crime and the people that do so should be arrested. And if I got stuck in one of those traffic jams I'm not waiting for the police to show up.

[@lapelcelery42]

@@iceman18211 But Trudeau personally and openly lied about those people calling them Nazis, and enacted emergency powers to freeze their bank accounts instead of dealing with their reasonable complaints. If they're committing a crime, charge them with the crime - don't use it as an excuse to set a new precedent for totalitarian governmental control in Canada. If you are okay with the government freezing bank accounts to curb speech it doesn't like, you accept that precedent for anyone else, and for any new government.

[@pancake_5703]

This has got to be the most backwards way to protest, sitting around annoying people just seems like a good way to turn everyone against you

[@blampfno]

Bon.

[@JorgeMunoz-fv6cl]

¡Que armen un partido, y ganen las elecciones! Tal vez tengan la misma oportunidad que tuvo Javier Milei en Argentina! No lo creo, porque los objetivos son diferentes!

[@ericpmoss]

I notice a lot of right wingers in the comments. Pathetic -- I know that kids doing stunts is silly and counter-productive, but the vitriol aimed at them compared to say, Nestle, is sickening. Nestle steals water from National Parks and says "you don't have a right to water" but commenters hate these kids more? WTAF.

[@bogard84]

Your bong growers are literally stealing water from California. Smoke that ya hippie

[@ValiantGoat]

What's truly pathetic is labeling others as left/right wingers because they express a different opinion, everyone would be better off to move beyond the silly tribalizing of everything.

[@moshunit96]

We're not talking about nestle. We're talking about these whiny brats that don't seem to understand people hate what they are doing to spread their message. They literally hurting their own cause and they are to stupid to figure this out. What you just pulled out is a false equivalencey with that bullshit about nestle. It has nothing to do with what these protesters are doing. We're talking about their actions not what they are protesting.

[@ErroneousMonk1]

Is it right wing to applaud spoiled brats being disciplined? Or are we supposed to just accept their ridiculous behavior? Nobody is protesting Nestle by blocking traffic in Houston. Get real.

[@fedegibsonlespaul]

Not only silly. Delaying ppl from work, delaying an ambulance, a firetruck, police, etc, produce economic damage (or worse) to other ppl, regular folks, NOT TO NESTLE. Most of these "kids" organisations are actually funded by the millionaires that run the business these "activists" are supposed to be against of, look it up. It's all a charade. They got u good.

[@ghostrangex]

while i don't condone the actions of the protesters, anyone else find it disturbing how the governments can freeze your assets denying you access to your money. they did it to the truckers in canada too.

[@wizewizard1840]

No, because it was not personal money. It was money of a (criminal) organisation.

[@fedegibsonlespaul]

No, I don't. If you caused economic damage (delaying ppl from work, ambulance, firetruck, police, etc) you'll be sued and, unlike criminal law, in civil law you pay with your patrimony. It's pretty common to freeze assets to protect the right of the victim to get compensated, otherwise ppl would empty their accounts and "get rid" of their assets (change ownership in papers, sell, etc) to avoid having to pay up the debt. And no, it's not like they take your entire livelyhood, they come to an agreement. This mechanics exist since the Romans.

[@ghostrangex]

@@fedegibsonlespaul thats not how the law works, the government not gonna freeze your assets and give them to people who were late to work or last there job. that would be a civil matter.

[@ghostrangex]

@@wizewizard1840 so would you call BLM a criminal organization? what about antifia. that documented and video proof some of there members caused $$$$$$ of property damage. the whole blm and antifa didnt get there assets frozen

[@fedegibsonlespaul]

@@ghostrangex That's exactly how the law works, and it is a civil matter, there is no jail for it. Not only there are laws against blocking the streets, if I lose money because of your unlawful behaviour I will sue you and I will win, and you will pay with your assets if you don't have the money to pay. In the meantime, your assets and account may be frozen by a judge in order to ensure you won't declare bankrupcy and avoid paying the victim. As I said, these mechanisms, like "fraudulent conveyance" from Paulo, exists since Roman Law.

[@Ramblingpete]

Not mashed I like chips just saying 👻

[@snakeplissken1754]

We need a law that anyone that glues him/herself to the street can be seen as an object, a road bump and therefor doesn´t have to be stopped for. You don´t reward id*ocy and entitlement with protection but you make sure they learn through pain.

[@1inchPunchBowl]

You need to speak to some one about those deeply rooted issues you have. Good luck.

[@ErroneousMonk1]

@@1inchPunchBowl So you support kids being allowed to play in the street and vandalizing property? Or only kids who do it for reasons you apoprove of. What about kids in Chicago smashing store windows and burning cars? You good with that? I mean, it's only because they're oppressed. Right? Is their motive enough to forgive them of anything???

[@snakeplissken1754]

@@1inchPunchBowl If by "deeply rooted issues" you mean that i don´t respond kindly to other people forcing themselves on me, doubt anyone with a working brain would see an issue in that. After all i didn´t ask, nor agreed to others blocking my way for their "reasons", so why should i support it or even accept it? Nowadays activists are all entitled freaks that behave like immature brats knowing that others can´t do anything about it cause of laws, funnily enough the same thing they often "protest" against.

[@robertfreeman3831]

Kinda sad that ppl peacefully protesting garners so much hate. these are well meaning young people, any of you finger waggers actually listen to their concerns? what did you do today to ensure a future for life on this planet?

[@dumbcat]

it's not a planet. we live on a plane, under a dome.

[@ErroneousMonk1]

Easy to say when they haven't destroyed something that belongs to you or sat in front of your car while you're trying to get somewhere. Just because they haven't killed anyone doesn't make their actions acceptable. They're simply attention-seeking spoiled brats, just like Greta. And it's not "hate". It's just the truth.

[@xelthiavice4276]

get the people who fund them....

[@moshunit96]

I don't think its very hard for them to find funding for glue to attach themselves to stuff or mashed potatoes to throw at art work. Seems like most of what they do doesn't cost more than what your average person has in their wallet.

[@BobPharmacon]

HOW DARE THEY FIGHT THE SYSTEM, ITS ALL WE HAVE TO BELIEVE IN😅

[@ErroneousMonk1]

The ephemeral "system". Yes, let's all fight "the system" by inconveniencing actual citizens who have nothing to do with "the system" or by throwing food like a 2-year-old on works of art that are not part of "the system". But sure, they're fighting "the system".

[@petercastaneda5338]

Trying to get over the shame of the last century, by becoming the heroes of this one. Nice try.

[@ikkebang7058]

And if thegovernments won't end these terrorists, we citizens will!!!!

[@Cashewnutter112]

The only way to rid of these cockroaches is to spray bug spray.

[@1inchPunchBowl]

You could always clean up your flat, & do the washing up now & again? Cockroaches are a bad sign.

[@dee8985]

imagine useless Uk police doing the same :)

[@weerobot]

Finally